(45)Once a pre-operation certificate has been received, and after verifying that the legal requirements of the Member State in which the company is to be registered after the cross‐border operation are fulfilled, including a possible check as to whether the cross‐border operation constitutes a circumvention of Union or national law, the competent authorities should register the company in the register of that Member State. Only after this registration should the competent authority of the former Member State of the company or companies carrying out the cross-border operation strike the company off its own register. It should not be possible for the competent authorities of the Member State in which the company is to be registered after the cross-border operation to dispute the information provided by the pre-operation certificate.